Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 429 Looking for Wild Onions

"She said she couldn't go. She was at home embroidering purses. It was just me and Yuanshan. Oh, and Aunt Li, too. She was helping Aunt Lan bring back half a pound of meat."

Shen Rongshan followed her into the house and said, "Buy some more vegetable seeds. After you harvest the broad beans, plant vegetables on the three acres of land."

All the vegetable seeds I bought last time have been planted.

"Okay, let Yuanshan go buy it then."

She wants to deliver the goods to Jinxiufang.

I went to the main room and brought over the box, which contained fried broad beans and fried peanuts.

The two sat at the table eating peanuts.

"This year, we grow peanuts ourselves and keep them for frying at home at the end of the year. We don't have to go to town to buy broad beans. I don't know how to cook them, otherwise I can cook them at home."

He nodded: "We only planted three-tenths of broad beans at home. We can't sell them for much money. We'll eat them all at home."

"At that time, I went to the fields to pick broad beans and fried them for lunch."

The stir-fried taste is also good, he likes it very much.

Shen Rongshan looked at her and said, "Don't you like Fuling cake? Go to the store and buy some tomorrow. I see that we are out of brown sugar and white sugar at home. Buy some while you are at it so that I can make some steamed buns with sugar."

Ji Wenhe clapped his hands and said, "I'll go find some wild onions and make some flower rolls."

"I can go with you. Let's look outside the village. I don't think we can find wild onions in our village."

He covered the box to protect the peanuts from moisture.

Go to the utility room, get two baskets and two sickles, and lock the door.

Shen Rongshan took the basket and sickle from her.

Shen Yuanshan went out to sell goods. He was busy at home this month and didn't go out to sell goods much. The goods at home should be sold out next month, and he will go to purchase more goods at the end of the month.

A lot of time wasted this month. The two of them went out to look for potential partners for several days in a row and didn't go out to sell goods much.

The two walked eastward and met Qin Hehua, and greeted her politely.

"Hey, Rongshan, Wenhe, are you guys out to mow the pig farm or look for wild vegetables?"

"Go find some wild vegetables." Ji Wenhe replied, "Auntie Qin, where are you planning to go?"

"I'm not going anywhere, just wandering around. I heard that your aunt Lan's daughter-in-law gave birth to a girl, so I plan to go over and take a look."

"Okay, Yujiao and the others are talking at her house."

"Hey, then you guys go out and do your work, I'm going over there."

"Okay." He glanced at her back and whispered, "I don't know if Aunt Jiang's second daughter, Shen Lixia, has made it. I haven't heard from her family."

"I don't think she did. If she did, how could Aunt Niu not know?" Shen Rongshan walked in front of her and looked at the fields: "Wen He, have you told Hongye that if you want to plant two more plots of land, go to the village head's house?"

"I've already told her that we'll probably go to the village head's house and ask for a piece of land to plant next year. This year, our three families are still together, and there's only enough rice seeds for a few plots of land at home. After the rice is harvested, we'll plant separately."

The girl Shen Yuanshan was looking for was named Du Xiaoxiao. When she went to their house to give the betrothal gift, she mentioned that two pieces of land at home were a bit too few.

She also said at the time that if they had money in the future, they could buy two more pieces of land.

Anyway, it is impossible for Ji Wenhe to buy two pieces of land for him now. If he buys them for Shen Yuanshan, then Shen Wenshan will have to buy them as well.

Later, their family didn't say anything.

The two were looking for wild onions outside the village, and they dug up some wild vegetables when they saw them.

Following not far behind him, two people, one on the left and one on the right, conducted a carpet search.

When going west, he saw a lot of people looking for wild vegetables in front of him, and some of them were talking loudly. Ji Wenhe became curious and deliberately moved towards them.

"Hey, isn't this Wen He? You guys are here to look for wild vegetables as well."

She turned around and saw Wang Ruhua: "Yes, Aunt Wang, come and find some wild onions."

"You're looking for wild onions." She pointed to the southwest. "Go that way, keep going straight ahead. A few days ago I heard from the villagers that there's a large patch of wild onions over there. I wonder if they've all been dug up. Send your man to take a look."

"Okay, I'll go talk to him."

He quickly ran to Shen Rongshan and asked him to go and take a look ahead, and then returned to Wang Ruhua.

"Aunt Wang, what's the latest gossip? Tell me."

"Whose house do you want to listen to?"

"Anyone's will do."

Without a mobile phone, internet or TV series to watch, the thing that excites her most is gossip about other people.

She was listening to Wang Ruhua's gossip with great interest.

Over there, Shen Rongshan came back with some wild onions. His basket was already full. He called her from a distance, "Wen He, let's go home."

Ji Wenhe looked back and said to the people around him, "Aunt Wang, I'm going back first. Come to our village when you have time."

"Hey, go back."

She trotted over to him and looked at the wild onions in the basket: "These are almost enough, is there any more?"

Shen Rongshan replied: "No, they were all poached."

There were still two people there, and the rest were all dug out by them.

The wild onions are very small and don’t grow very big in this season, but if you don’t dig them, others will dig them up.

After returning to the village, I turned my head to look at the fields and saw Ding Hongye in the southern field, walking on the ridge and heading east.

"Brother Shen, take the things back." She handed him the basket and sickle, "I'll go take a look."

Ding Hongye embroidered a purse at home for a while, but her eyes felt tired after looking at it for so long, so she went out for a walk.

She wanted to talk to her sister-in-law, but when she found out she was not at home, she went to take a look at the fields.

When I reached the easternmost edge of the field, I turned around and saw her following me from the edge of the field: "Sister-in-law, why are you here?"

"Your eldest brother and I went out to dig wild onions and vegetables, and we came back and saw you here."

"I just came out for a walk, sister-in-law. I think the land on both sides of the foot of the mountain is very different and not as good as the land in the middle."

Their village is not at the foot of the mountain, so the land is good. Unlike Shenjia Village, which is close to the mountain, the crops do not grow as well as in their village.

Ji Wenhe walked up to her and said, "It's like this near the foot of the mountain. There are trees all around to block the view, so the crops are not as good as those in other villages."

She nodded and said, "Two mu of land at home is too little, and the harvest can't make much money. I want to wait until the rice is harvested, and then talk to the head of the village and ask for two plots of land to plant."

I discussed this with Shen Wenshan a few days ago, and he agreed to save some money and buy two more pieces of land.

"Okay, when the time comes, let Wenshan talk to the head of the village and see which plots of land they have left and pick the best ones."

Shen Zhong's family only kept the best three acres of land for their own farming, and distributed the rest to the villagers, who also picked the best land for farming.

The two walked south along the east side.

Ding Hongye looked at the wasteland on the right and said, "Sister-in-law, this should have been a farmland before."

"Yes, I heard from the villagers that these fields used to be farmland, but later Shenjia Village fell into decline and these fields became deserted. Look, the grass here is almost as tall as a man's thigh."